Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?

Danish lawyer, executive director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the author of Free ...

Former President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz on defending democracy, the importance of honest communication and ...

Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin on the fragile ceasefire and how Israel’s 2026 elections could shift the ...

The current ‘peace plan’ is less about conflict settlement than about the Kremlin’s fears and its desire to control Ukraine ...

The corruption scandal in the country continues to spread, and the pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy is mounting. On Friday, ...

Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve ...

The election results in Honduras are still uncertain. But one thing is certain — the ruling left-wing party has suffered a ...

The long decline of social democracy began with the ‘Third Way’. Since then, it has been searching for a new direction ...

While Trump reorganises Europe’s neighbourhood, the EU remains reactive. Its habitual passivity could relegate it to a ...

Algorithms meant to protect users now silence those who speak plainly about sexual violence, forcing euphemisms where truth ...

Over 542 days without a government in Brussels. Maybe it’s time for a conclave: lock them together, throw away the key and ...